Odd message during command line installs.

[Nils Kassube]

James R McKenzie wrote:
> How do I fix this? For the record "now" Synaptic won't run properly
> either. I tried the 'apt-get -f install' thing as sudo and it made no
> difference. What is this error and how can it be fixed?

> solution). jim at Jims64KubuntuLapTop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   dpkg-dev
> Suggested packages:
>   debian-keyring
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   dpkg-dev
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/712 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 1,598 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> E: Invalid archive member header
> E: Prior errors apply to
> /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg-dev_1.16.10ubuntu1_all.deb debconf:

I just tried to install build-essential on a Raring machine and I didn't 
encounter that problem. Maybe your downloaded file is faulty for some 
reason. I would remove the file 
"/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg-dev_1.16.10ubuntu1_all.deb" and run the 
command "sudo apt-get -f install" again.


Nils